Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.